How Tall Are Boston's Buildings and Should They Be Taller?

Yeah... That'd be sweeet. However, Chelsea, I would assume would have pretty low height limits, being so near Logan.
 
Federal Reserve is 588' and One Financial is 600'.
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Wikipedia and Emporis both list The Fed as 614 and One Financial as 590, though it does seem taller.
 
odurandina said:
are all those calls accurate?? wtf?
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They're the highest measurements I could find on the FAA site for each of those buildings.

Unfortunately nothing shows up before the late 90's, because I really wanted to see if the Pregnant building is taller (to the small mech box on top) and especially if Exchange Place is closer to 530'-540' rather than 510'. I also think the Keystone building doesn't factor in the substantial black mech top and is slightly over 400'.
 
Odd, that a few hours before i saw your post, i went to the Atlantic Wharf wiki page and updated it to 436'. i'm thinking we need to be careful; that some or many of these heights are accounting for the window washing booms.
 
Hubman said:
Wikipedia and Emporis both list The Fed as 614 and One Financial as 590, though it does seem taller.
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i believe 1 Financial is 600'.... when it was being built, my dad told me he was told by an architect working on the project that it was 600'. we also know the ground is pretty low over there.... i don't know how the 590' number came about.

the theory of the Fed Reserve being much closer to ~590' (also on lowish ground) is loosely confirmed.... i realize someone on this site must have done this before (but, i missed it).

In these drone images, the Fed at 614' is disproven (you can just see a sliver of it behind Dewey Sq). From the optics, there's probably about a 20' defect from 1 Financial to 1 International Pl..... and you see the Preggo meeting them half way at 590' (rising up to the plane with 1 IP/exactly as you'd expect). ....but the Fed Reserve a good 12~15' below ....lending further credibility to 1 Financial being, as near as makes no difference, 600'.


*someone around here might remember Chiofaro telling the BRA that Dewey Square was fine at 600', so IP should also be able to go 'six hundred' or something like that.... then boasting in the Globe a few years later, 'we got IP up just a hair taller....' IP and Dewey Square were a big deal at the time. :)





 
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Those pictures don't show anything useful because the buildings are all different distances from the camera and at different elevations so you can't use those pictures to judge relative height accurately.
 
DZH22 said:
A couple Cambridge...

75 Ames Street (giant lab) 299'

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=160104595&row=18

Upcoming residential on Ames Street 286'

https://oeaaa.faa.gov/oeaaa/external/searchAction.jsp?action=displayOECase&oeCaseID=286060154&row=2
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I can see the 286' for Ames Street Residences (see first link below - page 29 and 38), but 75 Ames at 299' seems to be a bit of a stretch. Check it out - In the second link, on page 45, you can see that the height to the roof top screen on 75 Ames is 263'6" feet (284'6" - 21'). However, what is missing is the height to the top of the stacks which can be seen in pages 41-44 in the same link. But after looking at that, I can't see how the FAA got the number of 299'. It doesn't seem like the the stacks can be more than 10-15 feet above the screen line. Another bit to add too - the ground elevation in the plans is 21 feet, and the FAA lists the ground height as 10 feet.

http://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/...sp294_article19_update_20141117_pt1.pdf?la=en

http://www.cambridgema.gov/~/media/Files/CDD/ZoningDevel/SpecialPermits/sp257/sp_257_plans.pdf?la=en

I contribute and edit the following:
List of tallest buildings and structures in Cambridge, Massachusetts (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_and_structures_in_Cambridge,_Massachusetts
List of tallest buildings in Massachusetts, exclusive of Boston (Wikipedia) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_buildings_in_Massachusetts,_exclusive_of_Boston
Emporis (mostly New England)
Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat
 
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